Ragnaros shouldn't need any FR or 2T5.
Did it just last night in my Heroics/Naxx gear with a bear at about 16k hp.

I just keep the pet on passive stay when he is attacking rags so once vanished my pet doesn't try to kill spawns when they attack me.
Then do the typical deterrence tank while waiting for the rest of the spawns to show up before feigning.
Generally that leaves maybe 1 spawn up that will come at me. The pet sitting in the middle of the place can easily grab it before its at me.


Nice to know domo is doable without 2T5.
Though something tells me my bear lacks the raw HP to do it right now

I am 99% certain (i.e. I've used it to make my alt warrior uncrittable when she had bad tank gear, and asking more experienced tanks led to confirmation) that the "reduces chance to be crit by X%" part of resilience does work against PvE mobs that are attacking you. The part that doesn't work in PvE is just the "reduces damage taken by crits" bit.

So if resilience is transferred to pets and if it works the same for pets as for players, it should reduce the pet's chance to be crit appropriately while the pet is tanking.

The reduced crit chance from resilience DOES work in PvE. The rumor got started because blizzard was trying to remove it from PvE so that druids wouldn't just stack resil and be crit immune for raids. They eventually just gave druids the 6% reduced crit talent and kept resilience as is.

Sorry to ask that question, but I thought, 83 resilience would be 1% crit-immunity to a level 80 whatsoever. Am I wrong with that assumption? I found the table for critimmunity on Big Red Rhino ( Resilience Cap ) and the numbers don't match with the numbers I calculated on my own.

That's right, in that case the numbers would fit. The only thing is, that I thought, pets would get 40% of the owner's resilience, that's what the patch notes said.

For tanks its 5% 80, 5.2% 81, 5.4% 82, 5.6% 83. Its safe to assume it is similiar for pets. With grace of the mantis dropping 4% off that we end up with 4 less then that. Using my in game stats, at 334 resil reduces crit by 3.54. So, that should be 94.35 resil for 1%. Divide this by .4 we get these numbers:

80 - 1% - 236
81 - 1.2% - 284
82 - 1.4% - 331

From 3.2 Patch Notes

• All pets now receive 40% of their master's resilience and 100% of their master's spell penetration

With Grace of the Mantis 2/2, your pet needs 1.6% reduced chance to be uncrittable against +3 level mobs. Effectively you need 1.6/.4 = 4% reduced chance to be crit on your character sheet.

From the Combat ratings thread, you need 94.27122498 resilience rating per percent to reduce chance to be crit.

So in total you need 94.27122498 * 4 = 377.08 ~= 378 resilience for your pet to be uncrittable vs +3 level mobs if your pet is talented with Grace of the Mantis 2/2.

Note that WoWWiki has not been updated to match the 3.2 nerf to resilience (15% more needed for the same amount of crit chance reduction).

When I soloed Garr (some time ago though) I still had mostly Naxx 25 gear, maybe some Ulduar 10 pieces, plus 2T5.
I assume your turtle is specced for Thunderstomp? If so, Mend Pet shouldn't overaggro it. Also, I myself prefered to use MD for Multishot and I single targeted them down (Volley is a deathwish there). As soon as you have 2-3 adds down, you have passed the critical phase. Garr himself is a joke, even with the buffs he gets from killing adds.

When I cleared MC I used a crocolisk, makes it much easier to handle a lot of mobs.
Take down one by one of the adds. And you can always MD->multishot too.
Use your PvE gear + 2T5.
Once the adds are done, you can autoshot-afk Garr and get something to eat/drink. =]

I was able to defeat Garr using a boar but a turtle (as you have) definitely helps. The most difficult component to the Garr fight is to keep your pet alive with mend/2pt5 without getting aggro. So I misdirect with multi-shot every cooldown as well as volley when I can. However, to avoid pulling aggro with your volley, you must, at first, single target them down. The pet should stay alive for the first minute or so without too much trouble (starts with full hp, mend, 2pt5, and the turtle shell). However, eventually the pet won't have it's c/d's ready and the single target dmg may not be enough to heal your pet. However, after a couple misdirects and thunderstomps the turtle usually has enough aggro for you to begin volleying and volley with 2pt5 will heal your pet for a lot. Use it when you must to keep it alive. You're better off getting aggro from a couple adds then having your pet die. Just use deterrence while your pet heals up from mend and then cast feign death.

Moreover, I also created a stam set with icy scale gear etc. The extra hp really helps on fights like Garr and Golemagg.

However, even with a stam set and turtle, it is still a high-damage fight and I've yet to one-shot it.

EDIT: I noticed your BM spec doesn't have Glyph of Mending. It's an additional 40% to your mend pet. It does wonders. You might also want to play with the talents for both your hunter and pet. Check out my armory for my stam set, BM solo talent choices, glyph choices, and pet spec (turtle or boar).

My first time trying to solo Garr I downed him in my second attempt. It was close in the beginning though, I think Filburt(turtle) got down to about 1-2% at one point. (I failed with Mend Pet a few times.)

I kept 2 of Garr's adds on me from the start, that kept a lot of dmg off of my pet. Once I was down to about 30-50% HP, In that time I was able to kill 2-3 of the adds and I popped FD. I never used Volley at all, seemed pretty easy this way.

I had pure PvE gear and 2pcT5.